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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. JaguarDB vs. NuoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAmazonDataJaguar, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122016201020152013
Current release8.1, December 20183.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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